ARE YOU READY?

Time to get our fingers ready to turn the page to a "new" year.

Thank you, Charles Schulz!

I don't know about you, but there are times I wouldn't mind repeating a year I loved. Of course, that would mean ignoring any and all sad/bad/irritating/frustrating/no-good things that happened that year. And, if we're honest, every year has them. Even the year we think of as "that perfect year" back when . . . .

Since we're not given much opportunity to pick and choose the year we want, we do have a few options. Such as:

• pretend the year didn't change. Just go on as before.
• mark through the year at the top of the calendar pages and insert the number we want.
• burn all calendars.

I admit, those aren't going to solve the problem of possibly having a bad year. (In fact, I can foresee some major train wrecks when we show up for an appointment we don't have, or don't show up for one we do have, or thought we had, or . . . .

So the only options left are:

• take a deep breath and go with the flow (remember to keep your head up so you can breathe)
• stop telling everybody you know how much you hate this new year (if they do, too, you won't be helping them any; and if they don't agree with you, you may have lost a friend)
• best of all: Think of This New Year as an Adventure!

Radical thought. An adventure! Not up for surprises? Not ready for an adventure? Feel bewildered by strangeness? 

Take heart . . . you're not alone! But, if you do accept the challenge to go with the Adventure idea, you'll also have company. After all, if you can't change it--and I've never known anyone who actually did get a new year changed--you might as well hang around and see what's going to happen. Who knows? It might be great!!

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I'm going to close with a quotation I've used before, because (1) I like Hal Borland, and (2) I agree with what he says. Here goes:

Wishing you a wonderful year ahead! 

Blessings,

Thursday's Child